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ORMOSIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of tropical shrubs and trees having usually odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and pink to reddish wood
Synonyms:
genus Ormosia; Ormosia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Ormosia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Ormosia"):
necklace tree (a tree of the genus Ormosia having seeds used as beads)
bead tree; jumby bean; jumby tree; Ormosia monosperma (small tree of West Indies and northeastern Venezuela having large oblong pointed leaflets and panicles of purple flowers; seeds are black or scarlet with black spots)
jumbie bead; jumby bead; Ormosia coarctata (West Indian tree similar to Ormosia monosperma but larger and having smaller leaflets and smaller seeds)
Holonyms ("Ormosia" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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